Tag Archives: Elizabeth Bishop

How Anti-Vaxxers Deny 800,000 Dead

By Robin Bates | Published: December 16, 2021

As the U.S. hits 800,000 Covid deaths, I rerun a past post on a Bishop poem dealing with resignation.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 3, 2021

We passed 700,000 Covid deaths over the weekend, Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art” explains how certain people have numbed themselves to the disaster.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 16, 2014

Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish” works as a powerful meditation on hope.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 10, 2012

Literature as therapy, Greek tragedy as soap opera: assorted articles about lit and life.